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"My dear Uncle Charles," twenty-two-year-old Genevive de Gaulle wrote on May 6, 1943. "Maybe you have already heard about the different events affecting the family." The general's brother Pierre had been taken by the Gestapo; his brother Xavier, Genevive's father, had escaped to Switzerland. Genevive asked her uncle where she could be most useful - France England A French territory When no response came immediately, she decided to stay in France to help carry out his call to resist the Nazis. Based on interviews with family members, former associates, prominent historians, and never-before-seen papers written by Genevive de Gaulle, The General's Niece is the first English-language biography of Charles de Gaulle's niece, confidante, and daughter figure, Genevive, to whom the legendary French general and president dedicated his war memoirs.